Systems Engineer Lead/Cost Account Manager

BAE Systems•Wayne, NJ

10d•$128,831 - $219,012•Onsite

About The Position

What it's like to be a Systems Engineer Lead/Cost Account Manager advancing your career within BAE Systems? Rewarding. As part of our Systems Engineering team, you will be designing and testing the world's most advanced communication systems for the United States DoD and international customers. This career opportunity is available for a System Engineer to lead a team on a variety of technical, planning and financial assignments. Tasks range from architectural concepts and test execution to cost estimation and schedule planning and monitoring. Reports and presentations to our Executive Staff is a key requirement of this job. The candidate should have familiarity in requirements development, test and qualification planning and execution including use of defect tracking data bases. Candidate should also have experience in Cost Accounting Management including budget control, estimations to complete, and the relationships between the customer Statement of Work and Work Breakdown Structures. Motivated and positive minded engineering leaders must hold an active United States security clearance and skilled in areas needed for cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams. The candidate should have the appropriate educational experience as well past development and integration experience. The ability to derive a workflow from technical requirements is a necessity. Knowledge and exposure to computer architectures, networking, and wireless technology will ensure a candidate will be successful. An outside the box thinker is desirable to break from the status-quo, thinking of efficient process improvements reducing time to market. Motivated and open-minded engineers should have the ability to obtain a United States security clearance and be skilled in areas needed for cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams. This position will require you to be onsite in Wayne NJ. Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time on site. This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time. We welcome all those who have big ideas, crave innovation, want to drive fielding velocity and have the passion to bring the warfighter home safe. With a 9/80 schedule, and every other Friday off, our flexible work environment provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. We put our customers first - exemplified by our mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems. BAE Systems offers competitive pay, benefits, and important work-life balance initiatives including every other Friday Off, Flextime, and Telecommuting. BAE also believes in a culture of recognition for the extraordinary contributions of our skilled employees. Our engineers are the lifeblood of our company and we're more than 5,000 strong. With our robust offering of educational and career development opportunities, your chances to grow are limitless. Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires US citizenship status

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Systems, Electrical, Computer, Aerospace Engineering with 6-8 years' experience
Ability to obtain and hold a DoD Secret level security clearance is required
Experience in both performing and managing integration, test and qualification programs
Proficiency with DoD qualification programs
Exposure to requirements derivation and management (DOORS, JAMA, etc)
EVMS/CAM Experience

Nice To Haves

DoD Secret clearance or higher
Master's Degree in Engineering with 6 years experience
5+ years integration and test management of sophisticated DoD communications systems
MBSE with SysML in MagicDraw or equivalent
Agile development and problem tracking in JIRA or equivalent
Knowledge of DOORS as relates to requirement development, test plans, procedures and reports
Knowledge of Open System architectures and standards
Networking technologies such as layer 2 and layer 3 managed switch configurations and Linux

Responsibilities

Tasks range from architectural concepts and test execution to cost estimation and schedule planning and monitoring.
Reports and presentations to our Executive Staff is a key requirement of this job.
The ability to derive a workflow from technical requirements is a necessity.

Benefits

competitive pay
benefits
work-life balance initiatives including every other Friday Off, Flextime, and Telecommuting
culture of recognition for the extraordinary contributions of our skilled employees
robust offering of educational and career development opportunities
health, dental, and vision insurance
health savings accounts
a 401(k) savings plan
disability coverage
life and accident insurance
employee assistance program
a legal plan
discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance
paid time off
paid holidays
paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave
Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards
Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.